Facing pressure from Dalit leaders within the ruling alliance as well as from the Opposition, the Centre has decided to introduce a Bill to restore the original provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Act, 1989, which the Supreme Court had struck down in a March ruling....

The six-member monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has adjudged to increase the repo rate by 25 basis points due to the concern of inflation. Five members of the committee voted for the rate hike and now the repo rate has been fixed at 6.5%. However, the...

An uproar erupted in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday when BJP MP Amit Shah said in the House that Rajiv Gandhi-signed 1985 Assam Accord was similar to Assam's National Register of Citizen (NRC), the final draft of which was released Monday. He said the Congress didn't have the courage to...

Expressing her grave concern over not including more than 40 lakh names in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) draft, West Bengal CM, Mamata Banerjee has slammed the Centre for deliberately evicting Bengalis and Biharis from Assam. She said, “we are worried because people are being...

Gangster Abu Salem has sent a legal notice on the makers of the movie 'Sanju', for allegedly portraying wrong information about him in the movie. Abu Salem's lawyer has sent the notice to Raj Kumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the distributors and the production companies involved, demanding...